This study’s goal was to determine whether receiving a particular type of feedback on nativeness of secondlanguage accent positively influenced pronunciation over time. Forty-five native speakers of American English of beginning to intermediate Spanish ability were randomly assigned to three groups. The first group was asked to practise Spanish using speech recognitionbased software that provid...

Speech utterances in a given language are known to be less intelligible to second-language (L2) listeners than to native listeners. This study is aimed at quantifying the reduction of speech intelligibility due to non-nativeness of the listener. Two types of experiments were carried out: Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) experiments for obtaining a quantitative measure of speech intelligibility,...

The Interspeech 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge includes two regression learning tasks, namely the Parkinson’s Condition Sub-Challenge and the Degree of Nativeness SubChallenge. We evaluated two state-of-the-art machine learning methods on the tasks, namely Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Gaussian Processes Regression (GPR). We also experiented with various classifier combination an...

Abstract Interlocutors tend to refer objects using the same names as each other. We investigated whether native and non-native interlocutors’ tendency do so is influenced by speakers’ nativeness their beliefs about an interlocutor's nativeness. A or participant a confederate directed other around map deliver locations. manipulated confederates referred favored disfavored name, while controlling...

Abstract A lot of attention has been devoted in the last 30 years to understanding nativeness and what traditionally called non-nativeness. While many studies have attempted problematize dichotomic division between so-called native speakers non-native speakers, several others specifically focussed on language teaching profession order understand aspects related identity performance teachers who...

This study extends the logic of prior studies showing phonetic convergence between interlocutors to structural domain. We ask whether listeners’ adaptation syntactic forms they produce depends on their perceptions about interlocutor's social proximity and linguistic competence, using priming as a measure convergence. Two experiments compared in dialogues native British English speakers (i) othe...